Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1903 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Manchuria is primarily a grain-produc-ing country. The Dayton, Ohio, chief of police has been removed by the Mayor. The Antomobile Club of America has elected Winthrop E. Scarett, New York, president. Friction between Japanese emigrants and Coreans is growing in southern Corea, owing to the number of.the Mikado’s subjects who are settling in the country. Dr. George E. Ladd, director of the school of mines at Rolla, has been elected by the Missouri world’s fair commission to be superintendent of the department of mines and metallurgy, to succeed Col. H. H. Gregg of Joplin. The federal court at San ?uan, Porto Rico, quashed the indictments for smuggling in the «ascs of Alonzo Cruzen, the collector of customs; Captain Andrew Dunlap, U. S. N., commandant of the naval station, and Robert Giles, a former contractor in Porto Rico, on the ground that the fines had bees paid and the offenses expiated.